From the article: "Chicago is designing an analytic software system to improve city services
and fight crime.

The system will allow policymakers to analyze disparate pieces of
information from across agencies, including crime statistics, building and
business permits, and transcripts from resident complaints, Chicago’s chief
data officer, Brett Goldstein, toldCIO Journal. Goldstein hopes the
system, which will be available to all agencies, will help officials parse out
patterns for violent crime and allow public workers to provide better services
by understanding how different factors affect city life." Read more